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RAMBERT TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 250143 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE MERCURY THEATRE TRUST LIMITED (BALLET RAMBERT)

Promote, maintain, improve and advance education particularly by the encouragement of the arts, especially the art of ballet in classical, contemporary and other dance forms.

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Latest income
£5.1m
Latest spending
£5.3m
Registered
1966
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £248,617 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with unrestricted reserves falling to £142,118. The trustees note that reserves are currently below their target of £750,000 and have adopted the going concern basis based on secured funding and forecasted surpluses in subsequent years.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: £750,000 (held: £142k)
“ideally the group should have access to reserves of at least £750,000. However, to begin to rebuild reserves after the pandemic, Rambert is first focusing on building up a reserves balance of £250,000 in the next few years before reaching its longer-term ambition of £750,000.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: The Group provided funding totalling £32,983 to Rambert Creative Contemporary Dance Grades Ltd, a company with common directors and in which the group has a 50% investment. At the reporting date debtors include £365,203 due from Rambert Creative Contemporary Dance Grades Ltd.
“During the year the Group provided funding totalling £32,983 (2024: £120,000) to Rambert Creative Contemporary Dance Grades Ltd, a company with common directors and in which the group has a 50% investment. At the reporting date debtors include £365,203 (2024: £332,220) due from Rambert Creative Contemporary Dance Grades Ltd.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Trading subsidiary: Rambert Productions Limited
“Ballet Rambert Limited’s trading subsidiary undertaking is Rambert Productions Limited (company number 09308404), a company incorporated in England and Wales and which is limited by share capital.” — page 42
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Nyman Libson Paul LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

RAMBERT PRODUCTIONS LIMITED — per its own Companies House accounts
  • Ballet Rambert Limited makes a charge to Rambert Productions Limited for the costs of personnel employed by the parent undertaking.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Total income
£5.1m
Total spending
£5.3m
Cost of raising funds
£244k
Reserves (reported)
£8.8m
Employees
0

Reported reserves equal ~19.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (53% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£5.1m£5.3m
31/03/2024£4.2m£4.7m
31/03/2023£5.5m£6.3m
31/03/2022£4.6m£5.3m
31/03/2021£4.8m£4.4m

Common questions

Is RAMBERT TRUST LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £248,617 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with unrestricted reserves falling to £142,118. The trustees note that reserves are currently below their target of £750,000 and have adopted the going concern basis based on secured funding and forecasted surpluses in subsequent years. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Nyman Libson Paul LLP.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
THE LINBURY TRUST2£180k
THE IDLEWILD TRUST2£31k
THE CHARLOTTE BONHAM-CARTER CHARITABLE TRUST2£18k
THE HAROLD HYAM WINGATE FOUNDATION2£13k
THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE BENEVOLENT FUND1£367k
THE MICHAEL BISHOP FOUNDATION1£265k
THE KIRBY LAING FOUNDATION1£125k
DAVID LAING FOUNDATION1£111k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BALLET RAMBERT LIMITED.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
RAMBERT TRUST LIMITED£5.1m——unclear—no doubt
BALLET RAMBERT LIMITED FY2025£3.2m£110,001 - £120,000—unclear—no doubt
RAMBERT SCHOOL OF BALLET AND CONTEMPORARY DANCE TRUST FY2025£330k—0unclear—no doubt
RAMBERT SCHOOL OF BALLET AND CONTEMPORARY DANCE FY2025£3.5m——within—no doubt
BRITISH BALLET ORGANIZATION LIMITED FY2024£1.1mabove £60,0001below—no doubt
BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET FY2025£17.6m——unclear—no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.